Laws endeavor to resolve conflicts and regulate human behavior. However, often the real force of law is in making moral points...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sponsors of Proposition 187 opened a new round in the fight to resurrect the immigrant-benefits initiative We...

Personal Effects General Property-Damages Rule Doesn't Apply in Every Case By David Harris In California, the general rule of...

Capping an effort that has spanned four years, the House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation that harmonizes f...

^^Bench Press^^ By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Admitting you have watched Jerry Springer is only slightly less humiliating than be...

Being zapped with a 50,000-volt stun belt last year at the behest of a Long Beach judge apparently did not impress upon caree...

Colleagues on Wednesday remembered William Gordon Smith, who died earlier this week, as a pioneer in the field of draft and mi...

SAN DIEGO - At least two California lawyers are expected to face charges in connection with a Los Angeles-based organization ...

Envision this. Your client storms through the door, mad as hell at the enemy - a former spouse, employer or maybe a business ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster's state and local tax group has entered into a "strategic alliance" with KPMG, one of...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1995, Joseph T. Flores was just one of many defendants feeling the brunt of the three-strikes sentencing l...

After haggling over logistics, the presiding judges of the Los Angeles Municipal and Superior courts have formed a joint comm...

Private environmental attorney Barry C. Groveman, who is planning to run for Los Angeles County district attorney next year, ...

A bad-faith lawsuit brought by the Santa Monica firm of Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov, Ringler & Klevens against its legal malpr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Tuesday tossed out a piece of Patrick Hallinan's novel case against his turncoat clien...

^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ Todd Anson , partner in charge of the San Diego office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harriso...

^^At Large^^ By Stephen Yagman What is wrong with the Los Angeles Police Department? I ask this not in the sense of what is r...

VENTURA - Alhambra attorney LeRoy Allan Martin admits he might have chosen a "less controversial" way to serve a civil lawsui...

SAN JOSE - A San Jose law firm has successfully invoked a state law designed to protect the valid exercise of constitutional ...

SAN DIEGO - A lawyer known equally for passionate defenses of his clients and nurturing children through Pop Warner football ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Northern District's newly minted judge, William Alsup, can expect a lot of phone calls in the coming week...

In an effort to step up prosecutions against people who commit crimes against the elderly, Los Angeles City Attorney James K....

A Santa Monica teen-ager who died last Friday morning after his father allegedly shot him in the chest may have been a longti...

The more-than 9,000 lawyers descending into the sizzle and mug of Atlanta this week for the American Bar Association's annual...

SANTA BARBARA - It's dangerous these days to say harmful things about companies on the Internet, especially while impersonati...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission conducted a nationwide sweep targeting suspected manipulators of the s...

SACRAMENTO - The Proposition 187 litigation may finally be over, but rights and benefits for an estimated 2 million illegal i...

Court cases relating to sexually oriented content on the Internet often involve attacks on the freedom to purvey it and ways ...

Loan Justice Jenkins & Mulligan, a two-lawyer consumer law firm, devotes 30 percent of its time to pro bono matters. Its ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Southern California lawyer has learned the hard way about the dangers of representing yourself in civil lit...